Fox News host snaps at guest for calling her 'sweetheart' in on-air spat
Fox News anchor
Martha MacCallum
had a heated moment on her live show when a guest called her "sweetheart" during the broadcast.
On her program The Story with Martha MacCallum, the veteran news anchor, 61, interviewed Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers on Tuesday. However, sparks flew soon after Randi, who has led the union since 2008, appeared on Fox to deliberate over a Supreme Court case regarding religious
parents
' censorship rights over
LGBTQ+ content
in public
schools
.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled support for the religious rights of parents in Maryland who want to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters. It appears the court might side with objections from parents, finding the Montgomery County school system just outside Washington, cannot make elementary pupils participate in classes with such books if parents have religiously-based objections.
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Part of a trio of religious rights cases the justices are examining this term, this issue follows the court's trend of affirming claims of religious bias in recent times. The contested books, which include titles such as Prince and Knight and Uncle Bobby's Wedding, were introduced by the school district in 2022 to celebrate the community's diversity.
Randi Weingarten appeared on Fox News on Tuesday
(Image: Getty)
Initially, parents could opt their children out of certain school lessons for religious and other reasons, but the school board did an about-face a year later, sparking protests and eventually a lawsuit. A verdict in the case is anticipated by early summer, reports
the Express US
.
During her an interview with Randi on the subject, Martha couldn't help but laugh and shake her head, clearly disagreeing - and she even scoffed when her guest commended a
Massachusetts
school district for creating "a real culture of a safe and welcoming school."
The news anchor challenged, "So what you're saying is if we can find other areas in the country where the proficiency levels are also abysmal and should be embarrassing to any education organization, then we can start to make assessments and say, 'Oh it's because of choice,' or 'Oh it's because of money?' We know that money doesn't equate a better outcome."
Martha MacCallum asked her guest not to call her 'sweetheart'
(Image: Fox News)
But when Randi cut off Martha mid-sentence, insisting, "Martha, Martha, Martha, sweetheart, sweetheart, listen to me. It actually does," the host immediately retorted with a sharp, "Please don't call me sweetheart." Randi quickly apologized with "I'm sorry, my bad," and the conversation went on.
Later, Martha expressed her views by saying, "I'm honestly less concerned with them being their full selves than I am with them being able to read and write and do math. And that is the biggest problem that we face in our schools today, and if I talk to one more teacher who tells me that they are not allowed to hold a child back who cannot read.."
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Randi, who is also the ex-head of the United Federation of Teachers, chimed in, "I agree with you! I agree with you! You need both, you need both." The back-and-forth between Martha and the educator and labor leader buzzed up on social media, sparking debates. Chatter about the term "sweetheart" ensued, with a supporter saying on X, "Martha MacCallum is the best! She should give lessons on 'setting boundaries' to every journalist on the air."
Someone else tweeted, "Good for Martha!" However, there was opposition too, with a comment reading, "I get annoyed by controlled speech. There is nothing wrong with sweetheart, its common speech in America."
One critic argued against policing language, posting "Are we going to start dictating dialects like the woke left now? Im from the midwest where men are called boys and women are called sweetheart. Deal with it, not changing." And finally, a viewer's post read disapprovingly, "Martha is so lame. Is she still anti-Trump?"
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